Whether he can or not has been seen. He is going into year 4. He may think he gets four "first years" like McDermott, but he does not. So far he has gutted and rebuilt every major program except women's basketball. Not only did he make each one worse with his changes, they have continued to get worse with each successive year. To top it off he has wasted over $4 million in 4 years firing coaches, he has raised prices to the highest level in our history while simultaneously reducing performance to the lowest, he gave an unproven Big 12 head coach a ridiculous 9-year contract, he gave a 2-10 football coach a contract extension while conveniently forgetting to mention it to the fans or media, and he he has embarrassed us with a long list of follies that range from providing opponents bulletin board material with his billboard to the mismatched uniform fiascos to the mismanaged donation/reseating of Jack Trice to insulting fans who criticize or boo (his infamous ticket holders "they don't pay the bills") quote. Enough is enough. I have nothing against Pollard personally, I think he is a fine family man and he is probably a good administrator/bureaucrat. I am sure he did and would do a fine job as an assistant AD somewhere like Wisconsin, where they had a strong, charismatic, sports- and coaching-savvy leader like Barry Alvarez as AD. And that's what we need as our AD -- a leader, not a bureaucrat.
